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Date:	8th May 1907
Colliery:	Newburgh
Company:	Broomhill Collieries Ltd.
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
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Deceased worked alone, using a candle in a place 20 feet wide in a coal seam, 2 feat 5 inches thick, and, about the middle of the seam and centre of the place he had drilled a hole 3 feet deep, practically in the solid, the coal not being kyrved. It was charged with home made cartridge of loose gunpowder and fired by a patent squib. Deceased was found by the putter close to the shot, which had been fired, injured about the head. A prop or two had been blown out and some coal dislodged some of which was lying on his arm. He never was able to give any account of what happened and died next day. Probably the shot had exploded when he was lighting the squib. The Local Inspectors concluded their report as follows: "After the most careful consideration we come to the conclusion it has been a pure accident."

Source:

1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 44, Accident Number: 34 Where to find this report

	Ferguson, James (died: 09 May 1907) , aged 53, Hewer
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